Gatineau

Gatineau is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the northern bank of the Ottawa River directly across from Ottawa, Ontario. It is the largest city of the Outaouais administrative region, forms part of Canada's National Capital Region and has been described as the most bilingual city in Canada, using French and English. It is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of the same name, and it is the seat of the judicial district of Hull. The city grew from older settlements including Hull, founded on the north shore of the Ottawa River in 1800 by Philemon Wright at the portage around the Chaudière Falls. The 2021 census counted 291,041 residents, making it the fourth-largest city in Quebec, within an Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area of 1,488,307.